Vocalist/guitarist/producer DEVIN TOWNSEND is featured in a new interview with AlternativeMatter.net. An excerpt from the discussion is available below:

Q: Deconstruction reminds me a lot of your STRAPPING YOUNG LAD material, however without all the negativy and nihilism. Your new material is still heavy, weird and outlandish, but it’s executed in a very focussed and controlled way….

Townsend: "Thank you, it does exactly represent my current state of mind. Sometimes when people are negative towards the record for the very things it’s about it becomes difficult for me to discuss it, right? The problem of this record is that it’s a stream of conciousness and all the lyrics wander and that’s exactly what it’s supposed to do. The whole four record project is suppossed to in a vague way to represent the transition of one way of thinking and creating to another and hopefully those four records represent the way that change came about."

Q: So which of the four records represents your current state of being?

Townsend: "Ghost, 100 percent and it has been for many years. The point of Deconstruction is that the main character that the lyrics revolve around, at the end of the story has an epiphany that the thing he was focussing so heavily on adds nothing to his life and when he’s standing back and reviews it all it’s all so confusing and so much work that the quest he was on is in the end entirly futile. This realisation makes the character re-evaluate what’s really important to him. The character is obviously me, so for me what is really important the thirty something age I am right now is – I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs and I’m a vegetarian, so I’m a boring dude, right? What I did today I walked around, rented a bike and rode around the city and I loved it. It was awesome."

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As previously reported, Townsend will hold a signing session at Soundcheck Hollywood on West Hollywood, CA today (Friday, June 24th) between 1 - 2 PM. Check out the flyer below for details, click here for updates.

Townsend released two albums - Deconstruction and Ghost — which are the third and fourth in a series of albums to be made available under The Devin Townsend Project banner, on June 21st via InsideOut Music.

In addition to the Deconstruction and Ghost 2CD package, fans can get their hands on one of the 500 "Special" bundles that contains both of the albums along with a limited-edition 7" titled 'The Calm & The Storm' plus four digital songs from the already completed Ghost II album. For the hardcore Devin fans, there are also 500 of the "Ultimate" bundles which contains everything from the other packages along with a patch and an exclusive t-shirt. All of these are available now at CMDistro.com.

The band is also giving away a song from each of the two new records now. To download these songs, visit this location.

The slipcase combo-pack artwork was recently revealed:

The album individual artwork and tracklistings can be found below:

Deconstruction tracklisting:

'Praise The Lowered'

'Stand'

'Juula'

'Planet Of The Apes'

'Summera'

'The Mighty Masturbator'

'Pandemic'

'Deconstruction'

'Poltergeist'

Deconstruction guest musicians:

* Mikael Åkerfeldt (OPETH, BLOODBATH)

* Ihsahn (EMPEROR)

* Tommy Rogers (BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME)

* Joe Duplantier (GOJIRA)

* Greg Puciato (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN)

* Floor Jansen (AFTER FOREVER, REVAMP)

* Oderus Urungus (GWAR)

* Paul Masvidal (CYNIC)

* Fredrik Thordendal (MESHUGGAH)

Ghost tracklisting:

'Fly'

'Heart Baby'

'Feather'

'Kawaii'

'Ghost'

'Blackberry'

'Monsoon'

'Dark Matters'

'Texada'

'Seams'

'Infinite Ocean'

'As You Were'